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Last week in Cleveland, Bishop Frederick Llewelyn Deane of Aberdeen and Orkney, repeated a "bit of a jibe" about a woman (the U. S.) who rushed up to a kindly old gentleman (Great Britain), begged him to hold her baby (the League of Nations), then disappeared. Up rose Newton Diehl Baker to whom the League is dear. Said he: "I am not one of those who disowned the baby, bishop...
...60th birthday of King George (June 3) was celebrated throughout the realm and the Dominions beyond the seas. There was no official holiday, but by spontaneous consent flags fluttered from flagstaffs from the Falkland to the Orkney Islands, from the Beaufort Sea to Tasmania. Thousands of letters and telegrams from all parts of the world were received...
...July 31 the American world fliers were to start on the last lap of their journey around the earth's crust. On that day the fog curled its haunches and lay down like a great gray beast from the Orkney Islands to Iceland. For two days, it did not stir. The fliers waited; all was ready. They had made the brief trip from Brough to Kirkwall easily, with a tall wind following them; in Kirkwall the engines had been tuned for the last time, final preparations had been made, even to giving each plane a carrier pigeon. The patrol...
Last week at Brough, England, the American world fliers refitted their planes. Pontoons and new engines were installed in preparation for the final dash across the Atlantic by way of the Orkney Islands, Iceland and Greenland, to Labrador. By Monday all preparations were complete, and the fliers waited only for the chain of U. S. naval vessels, commanded by Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, to take up their positions. The cruiser Milwaukee reached Nova Scotia to make maps of the region over which they will pass; the Danish steamer Gertrude Rask smashed through the ice to Greenland to carry supplies...
...route is: Los Angeles, Seattle, Prince Rupert, (B. C), Sitka (Alaska), ......... Island of Attu, Kashiwabara Bay, Bettobu (Kuriles), Minato Japan (April 17) .......... Shanghai .......... Akyab (Burma), Calcutta (May 28) .......... Bagdad, San Stefnano, Bucharest, Belgrade, Vienna, Strassbourg, Paris, London .......... Kirwall (Orkney Islands) .......... Reykjavik (Iceland), Angmaksalik (Greenland) .......... Indian Harbor (Labrador) .......... Montreal, Keyport, N. J., Washington, Dayton, St. Joseph, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles...